Today I was told I had to use an e-diary at the university, not so much under threat as obligation; that is, of course, a mechanism whereby I have to account for ALL my activities on campus ALL THE TIME. Traditionally professors do not troll around waiting for people to check what they are up to; being respected as professors not drones. In fact, it is absolutely an anathema to think that this is what professors might do; tell the administration what they are doing all day before slogging their way home as if they'd just done a shift shelf stacking.
I'm not a professor of course, my chances of such are negligible to the point of infinitesimal, for despite my knowledge base, outputs, commitment to the subject and so on, I have even refused to engage with university e-mail on a daily basis, and for good reason. I ignored it totally for decades because I distrusted the damn thing, and watched as many of my colleagues gave in, and subsequently did little else than send emails all day to no effect at all.
Meanwhile the mobile phone, in it's latest incarnation, functions less as a global communications device than an idiotic echo chamber of pathetic desire. It has fostered a fascism that has turned my own London neighbourhood in to the province of the desperate poor, the tragically strung out, and the eminent hipster. This is not good, and this is what technology has done; it has raised pond life to governance.
And even worse, despite all the CAD, BIM, and all the rest of it, can you really say the computing 'revolution' has even built a single decent house: can you really say it has made any better architecture? No.
Wake up everybody.
The technological revolution has put the human race back to middle ages and resurected tribal mentality on a global scale. As always where everyone is busy fighting each other someone else is benefiting.
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